Joining the Recruitment Team

Can I apply to both RM and RA at the same time?

We don't recommend that you apply for both roles, since the skill sets and motivations are separate. We recommend that you take some time to review each role's description and list of responsibilities.

Your hiring manager may also suggest that one role or the other would be a better fit for you during the interview process.

RMs spend their time executing across a diverse set of strategies, working from home offices, TFA regional offices, and college campuses across the USA.

RMs spend a majority of time engaging with TFA corps candidates at different stages of the applicant continuum (virtually and in-person), in pursuit of their application and matriculation to the TFA corps. RMs also engage with influencers in their campus community, such as career service offices and professors.

As part of their recruitment campaign, RMs plan and execute compelling events, such as classroom visits, career fairs, panel discussions, dinners, and happy hours. They build relationships to invest and engage TFA regional teams and the broader alumni base in recruitment strategy. In collaboration with the marketing team, RMs plan and execute TFA marketing and brand awareness strategy within their campaigns. Many RMs will spend time hiring, managing, and coaching a team of part-time undergraduate interns called Campus Campaign Coordinators and Ambassadors.

RAs work from either TFA regional offices or from a home office, and spend their time focusing on prospect identification and written prospect communications.

RAs plan and execute strategies to build a strong and diverse pipeline of TFA corps prospects. In collaboration with teammates, they plan and send initial communication with potential corps candidates, compelling them to meet with a RM. Additionally, RAs create and maintain systems for team organization, prioritization, and execution of key campaign work streams. Many RAs will also contribute to the planning and execution of TFA marketing and brand awareness strategy.

We often don’t know early in the application cycle which locations will be open by the time we interview you. Therefore, it’s crucial that you tell us in your application everywhere that you would consider living so that if openings change throughout the process, we know your complete list of preferences and can get your materials in front of the right hiring managers.

Unlike the corps member application process, your regional preferences do play a role in determining whether you move on in the interview process and which hiring managers interview you. We have a limited number of roles in each location, so let’s consider a few scenarios.

1: If you let us know your fiancé is planning to go to business school at The University of Virginia in a few years and you will both be moving there to establish state residency, then we’ll likely ask you to interview via webcam with only the Virginia hiring manager.

2: If you let us know you can only be in Ann Arbor because your partner is starting law school there, we will only be able to interview you if the current Ann Arbor RM decides not to return to her role.

3: If you say that you would go to any big city in the Northeast, it’s likely that a number of hiring managers would want to interview you and that we may ask you to participate in a few different interviews (virtually or in-region).

Our advice to you on your location preferences - be flexible, but be honest!

The more flexible you are about where you would live, the more openings you could likely be considered for. However, while we ask that you be flexible, we recognize that you likely have strong ties to particular geographic areas due to family connections, general lifestyle preferences and other personal and professional obligations.

Therefore, while we hope you will think expansively about locations where you would consider living, we also ask that you think carefully about each location and share your true preferences in this survey. If you wouldn’t actually accept a role in a particular region, it isn’t a good use of your time or our hiring managers’ time to go through the interview process, get an offer, and turn it down because of the location.

So take some time now to think hard about where you would truly be happy living next year before completing the location preferences survey as part of your application. And, if anything changes (i.e., you become more OR less open), email us at RtStaffing@teachforamerica.org.

Yes! RT, MTLD, and summer institute positions require different skill sets. Candidates who apply to multiple positions will go through more than one hiring process. We will try our best to streamline the interview processes, but we want you to be prepared for the time commitment that may be required if you move forward for multiple positions.

Special Note on Institute: If you receive offers for both roles (e.g., to be an RM and also an institute corps member advisor), we suggest that you speak with your hiring manager. The recruitment team holds a mandatory summer training, and it may conflict with working at summer institute. We may ask you to choose between the two opportunities.

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